Weird people you meet on holiday.

[Diddumz]

1988 - went to Majorca with my family. There was a woman who kept pretending she was drowning in the pool.

Have you met any oddballs on holiday?

My DH and I went on holiday to the Dominican Republic years and years ago now. We were only 19. First holiday on our own.
Anyways -
We saw this couple (same age as us) arguing at the airport. Then they were sat in front of us on the plane. She was soo miserable. As we came into land; we were looking out and commenting on how beautiful the coast was. White sandy beaches - clear waters - ect. She leant over him and said; looks just like Cornwall.
We kept bumping into them throughout the next 2 weeks and she was just soo grumpy. Hated the food. The cocktails weren't all that. It was too hot. The ice cream parlour was too far away from her sunbed. Pool was small.
We had the time of our lives on that holiday. Pretty sure she had the worst of hers tho 😂

I was a holiday rep from 89-97, how long have you got ladies? (and gents).
I can start with the cross dressing Vicar if you like - Corfu 1991.

@maddiemookins16mum

I was a holiday rep from 89-97, how long have you got ladies? (and gents). I can start with the cross dressing Vicar if you like - Corfu 1991.

I thought cross-dressing was a prequisite?

Went to San Francisco when I was 21 and stayed in a hostel, they had these nights where you could help make food and then you got it free. Thought it was a good way of meeting people so went along and met this one guy from Singapore. He invited me along to a Michael Jackson tribute concert that was happening a few days later and I thought why not?

Turned up there to find him in a full MJ inspired outfit, complete with glove. He spent the entire time trying to dance and moonwalk properly, while most people were just sat on seats. We then went for dinner and he told me he wanted a very short wife and that my face looked rather fat with my current haircut

I'm still Facebook friends with him and he has a lovely (and yes, short) wife and 2 kids he definitely made an impression!

Zante in 2006, we met a lady and her young son round the pool - they were there alone.
My stepdad invited them to dinner with us the first night as she seemed lovely and we all got on.
We spent a lot of time together that week then on our last night (after swapping details to keep in contact) she called our room and went absolutely nuts on the phone accusing us of stealing her stuff, plotting against her, my stepdad of being a creep.. we had to unplug the phone as she wouldn't let up. We all had a lovely evening that night and have absolutely no idea of what upset her, it was completely out of nowhere.
We left the next day and didn't give it another thought, then in the October we received a Christmas card from her with pleasantries in it reminiscing about the holiday.
Needless to say we didn't reply and moved house.

I was on a flight from New York to Los Angeles with a hen party of Brits, probably six or so. They had the t-shirts and the hen had some sort of hat on. They boarded the plane half drunk and kept drinking once we were in the air. They were so loud that the stewardess told them they would get no further alcohol service and the hen called her a cunt and argued with her about the alcohol.

A few minutes later the first officer came and told them that if there were any further disturbances he would radio ahead to LA and have the police waiting to arrest them for failure to follow the orders of the flight crew. That settled them down a bit.

Ibiza, 1997, my brother went out alone on the pull and got so shitfaced he was found asleep in the middle of the road leading from San Antonio Town to Cala Gracio. He fell asleep when the kindly taxi driver brought him to the hotel after waiting for him to sober up for hrs. He fell asleep cuddling a Teletubby (purple one) teddy bear...

Went to ibiza with Dh and DSs 15 & 16. Staying in hotel. First evening go and watch entertainment. A young single mum gets talking to me at the bar and asks if she can join us as shes on her own. No probs i say and we all scooch up for her and buggy with DS 2years old.
Entertainment ends and we head out to local pubs and we ask if she wants to join us and she does.
Several nights later we offer to let DSs go off on their own for a few hours. Pubs are basically in a square so they go left and we go right. Half way round we are sitting in a bar next to a sheesha bar. The kind that has large bed style seating with canopies. A group in front gets up and i look ahead and there is young mum sandwiched between my DSs on the bed ..smoking sheesha while she screams at the staff for 3 more screaming orgasm shots please.
I whispered to DH in horror. He says to sit tight n keep watching n not freak out as it would embarass boys in front of everyone.
We said to staff it was our boys as they served in both bars and they admitted they were all trying to work out the relationship between boys and young mum.
We monitored the whole night., hiding behind menus and people. Eventually worked out the toddler was asleep under canopy at the top of the bed. She got v,v drunk. Staff were amused at whole situation. I was not.
Eventually younger DS picked up toddler n strapped him in buggy. Older DS picked up woman and helped her home. We followed. They went into her room with toddler n her and came out again then went to their own room.
Next morning we knocked their door for brekky. They were green. Hahaha. We pulled them up about nite before n turns out they had bumped into her n she offered to take them drinking and to try the sheesha. They had made sure her and DS got in safely then went to bed. Couldnt really be mad as at least they had seen her home and made sure DS was in bed !! They couldnt believe we had been following them and they were so ill hahaha.

I've got a couple. There was the guy at a disney water park, late 50'3 with the tiniest speedos with a flame up the front. He spent all day with a camera on a tripod in different locations posing whilst flexing his invisible muscles. Have to wonder who exactly wanted those photos!

Then there was Canoe Barry at a centreparcs type place in Holland. He joined in all the kids activities like canoeing and raft building and was so competitive. He was literally screaming at 5 year olds to go faster on a raft. He also had a stop watch at the pool and was timing family members down a big slide. None of them, including very young kids, were beating his time....

Frightfully upper-class woman on a Cunard cruise who adored being the centre of attention and still behaved like some of the girls at public school. Just one example of the sort of thing she did was entered one of the public drinking areas fanning herself violently and announced in a shrill, cut-glass accent in a voice that could be heard at the other end of the room: 'I'm so bored, I could fuck a priest!'

The following day I discovered her in the same room at around 4pm, unconscious on one of the sofas and wafting whisky fumes that could knock you out at 50 paces.

As a public schoolgirl doubtless this was funny - admittedly I found it quite entertaining at the time and I'm sure she thought she was very daring and risque. In your 50s that's less the case, but looking back now I think she came over as rather sad.

This was 2008: Priest Lady, the fellow passengers used to call her. First time I've thought of her since and I now wonder what happened to her!

'Open door policy on arseholes though. (Possibly my favourite Keanu Reeves quote.)'

Isn't that Christian Slater in 'Heathers'?

We met a couple in a bar in Spain, who had driven from England with their Italian greyhound. The dog was seated with them and they proceeded to tell us that the dog had to have a gluten free diet, which included eggs and bacon at the weekend. The woman explained, quite seriously, that the dog really looks forward to the weekend. 🤔

I went on holiday once and met two rather eccentric Russians!

Anyway, lo and behold we went to another country and different time of year and they turned up!

We had a few drinks with them but now when we go away we wonder if we may bump into them again!

@LordFoofingtonismyMaster

Ooooh we went on a family holiday circa 87/88 to Portugal and the woman sitting next to my mother informed her she had brought a SUITCASE of bundy burger buns as her husband and sons ate nothing else. They were staying in the same complex as us and every day without fail they were poolside with them. Over thirty years later we still wonder what happened the Bundys 😂😂😂😂

Just a plain empty burger bun??

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Not cool @Diddumz. Not cool at all.

Genuinely saddened by this.

Yes, this lady just absolutely loved herself and asked every single passer by to take photos of her, it wasn't just a couple she wanted a whole photoshoot. She would stand and do all these poses. It was hilarious. And daily. We always tried to avoid her

Years ago we stayed in a very nice hotel in
Turkey. I decided to treat myself to a massage. I had a shock when the masseur was a man but didn't like to complain.
He did the back of my legs and got higher and higher. I was clenched so hard I actually thought he was going up my arse.
Nothing relaxing about it!!
When he finished he asked if I'd like any extras. Omg I literally ran out of the spa!

@ARabbitisaBunny did the twins have bobbed hair?

@MummyMayo1988

My DH and I went on holiday to the Dominican Republic years and years ago now. We were only 19. First holiday on our own. Anyways - We saw this couple (same age as us) arguing at the airport. Then they were sat in front of us on the plane. She was soo miserable. As we came into land; we were looking out and commenting on how beautiful the coast was. White sandy beaches - clear waters - ect. She leant over him and said; looks just like Cornwall. We kept bumping into them throughout the next 2 weeks and she was just soo grumpy. Hated the food. The cocktails weren't all that. It was too hot. The ice cream parlour was too far away from her sunbed. Pool was small. We had the time of our lives on that holiday. Pretty sure she had the worst of hers tho 😂

We were in SF for a week & loving it. One evening the cable cars developed a fault & we were stranded down by the harbour in a long queue. Wonderfully, the city authorities sent out a musician to entertain us, so we waited there by the water as the sun went down & it was all rather lovely.

Apart from the party of Brummies just behind us, who started whinging about the situation & then, as time went on, expanded that to dismiss SF as quite the worst place on their a-different-US-city-every-day tour. Me? I could've happily moved to SF & spent the rest of my life there. I thought they were nuts.

Please do avoid bringing up other MNers (or past) - we'll delete these posts as they're really not in the spirit.

I’ve been sidetracked by the the famous mumsnetter thing too - what gave her away?!

I’ve met someone very cool on a plane. I’ve no idea who he is or what he does but we met on a flight back Europe and got chatting. We’re friends on social media but there’s no real info. Apart from a street named after his family in a very lovely bit of the world.

None of his close friends show off. He has two super famous DJ friends and clearly some very wealthy mates . Lots of chatty messages about normal stuff I’ve googled him but nothing. Its like they are a secret club.

We actually met someone famous on holiday who got so hammered on cocktails every night that we felt embarrassed for them! They even puked in the foyer one night - This was over 10 years ago... btw their public persona is quite serious and almost the complete opposite! Would love to say who it was but obviously can't but think UK News person...

Hahaha - great thread and reminds me of when I went to Egypt in my early 20s and one of the maintenance men would wolf whistle at us every few minutes when we sat by the pool and then pretend it wasn’t him - blatantly obvious when there was no one else there. It was so bizarre!